Center for Effective Teaching and Learning (CETaL)
>> Faculty play a key role in creating an environment
where students succeed academically. UTEP created CETaL to
support faculty interested in understanding how students learn and in
improving their teaching. CETaL promotes excellence in teaching,
the improvement of student learning, and the scholarship of teaching.
Through CETaL, UTEP faculty receive support for instructional design,
development and evaluation to better ensure their effectiveness as
teachers.
>> CETaL services:
- Classroom observation consultations
- Curriculum development and revision support
- Individual consultations
- Research and publication support
- Sessions on student learning outcomes assessment
CETaL also hosts teaching and learning workshops and seminars where
faculty from all disciplines and all ranks can meet and share their
best teaching strategies. CETaL provides specific support for the
professional development of new faculty. At the beginning of each
academic year, CETaL hosts a Fall Faculty Retreat on Teaching and
Learning,
an event designed to provide new faculty with opportunities to network
with senior faculty early in their UTEP careers and to have a positive
impact on how they teach.
CETaL promotes the scholarship of teaching on the UTEP campus and
beyond through an annual conference, the SUN Conference on Teaching and
Learning. Presenters and attendees from across the country come
to UTEP each year to participate in this conference that is devoted
entirely to teaching and learning issues.